[sheepdog] [PATCH 0/2] Fix the generic image creation code

Max Reitz mreitz at redhat.com
Thu Mar 26 14:38:13 CET 2020


On 26.03.20 13:23, Max Reitz wrote:
> On 26.03.20 02:12, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> The recent patches from Max Reitz allowed some block drivers to not
>> provide the .bdrv_co_create_opts and still allow qemu-img to
>> create/format images as long as the image is already existing
>> (that is the case with various block storage drivers like nbd/iscsi/nvme, etc)
>>
>> However it was found out that some places in the code depend on the
>> .bdrv_co_create_opts/.create_opts to be != NULL to decide if to allow
>> image creation.
>>
>> To avoid adding failback code to all these places, just make generic failback
>> code be used by the drivers that need it, so that for outside user, there
>> is no diffirence if failback was used or not.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> 	Maxim Levitsky
>>
>> Maxim Levitsky (2):
>>   block: pass BlockDriver reference to the .bdrv_co_create
>>   block: trickle down the fallback image creation function use to the
>>     block drivers
> 
> Thanks, fixed the function parameter alignment, moved the declarations
> from block.h into block_int.h, and applied the series to my block branch:

(And the spelling fixes suggested by Eric)

> https://git.xanclic.moe/XanClic/qemu/commits/branch/block
> 
> Max
> 


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